A female in her mid-30s was walking east on the levee system in the 200 block of Church Street around 6 p.m. Friday when she passed by Bidding, who was sitting on a bench drinking a bottle of soda.

Shortly after, Bidding came up behind her wielding a knife, threw her to the ground and dragged her down the levee system toward the wooded area. Bidding told her numerous times he was going to kill her and told her to come with him into the woods.

“Both the victim and (Bidding) had stated he would have killed her,” Kingston police Detective Stephen Gibson said after Bidding was arraigned on the charges.

According to the affidavit:

Bidding wore a black glove on one of his hands. As he dragged the victim, he covered her mouth and nose with his gloved hand, obstructing her breathing as she pleaded for him to let her go and tried to fight him off.

During the struggle, Bidding cut the woman’s arm with the knife. He continued to drag her, telling her he couldn’t let her go and needed her money, until a passing bicyclist scared him off. Gibson said Bidding claimed he had never seen the bicyclist, but he believes that caused him to let the victim go and flee the area.

The victim told police she had seen Bidding sitting on the bench about four other times during her walks along the levee system. Police also found a blue tent in the wooded area by the levee system that belonged to Bidding.

On Monday, police learned associates of Bidding live on the 100 block of Nottingham Street in Plymouth. Police found Bidding at the address around 4 p.m. Police also learned Bidding had an active warrant out of the Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department for a similar situation in Plymouth where he attacked a female from behind and robbed her, police said.

Police said Bidding was at the end of an eight-year probation term in Georgia for robbery charges. Bidding told police he was homeless and fled the state to Pennsylvania where his sister resides in Edwardsville. Gibson said police found a bus ticket stub from when Bidding got to Pennsylvania dated March 21. Police said his sister kicked Bidding out of her home after a day, and he had been homeless again ever since.

Gibson called Bidding “an extremely dangerous person” and requested Roberts set bail as high as possible.

Bidding was jailed Wednesday at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, unable to post $100,000 straight cash bail set by Roberts.

After Bidding’s arraignment, he gave reporters a statement.

“I have mental problems, and I never got the proper help in prison,” Bidding said in a quiet voice. “I never got any help whatsoever of any kind in prison, and I’m sorry about what I did. I just hope with everything that everyone can forgive me one day.”

When asked why he felt he needed to attack this woman, he said, “There was no reason. It was just a person.” His eye filled with tears as he said, “I’m sorry. I never meant to—I never wanted to hurt anyone, and I hope she can forgive me one day.”

Gibson said Bidding will serve his prison term here in Luzerne County and will then be sent to Georgia for the probation violation.

Bidding is the son of Andrea and Anthony Bidding, who are currently serving jail sentences for the 2005 homicide of Peter Lach, 73, of Edwardsville, who was bound, beaten and robbed during a home invasion.

The Biddings' stepdaughter Erika Legg, 18; and niece, Gabrielle Thomas, 18, of Pittston Township, were also sentenced in 2010 for the crime.

Lach died in a hospital five days after the beating inside his 18 Vine St. residence, where he lived alone.

Arrest papers said just $100 was stolen in the crime.

Mr. Bidding gave $8 each to his stepdaughter and niece, both 15 at the time, for their roles, police said.

Lach had loaned Mrs. Bidding money and paid her for sex in the past, according to arrest papers.

The day of the crime police said Mrs. Bidding and the three suspects were at their 57 Short St., Edwardsville, home “trying to figure out how to get money” when they decided to rob Lach, police said.

Mrs. Bidding, 36, said the suspects relayed to her they tied up Mr. Lach and used his body “as a punching bag” to “get out a lifetime of frustrations.” She said the trio often bragged about the crime.

Police said Thomas admitted to the crime in an interview and detailed how the crime unfolded. She also noted Mrs. Bidding thought of the robbery plot, telling her husband to “hit him over the head with a frying pan” to knock Lach out.

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